Justice League Unlimited (TV Series)

Patriot Act (2006)

J.K. Simmons: General Wade Eiling, German Agent, Bystander

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Quotes 

• [the superpowered General Eiling has just defeated all the other League members he was fighting] 

  General Wade Eiling : [yelling to the heavens]  Superman, you coward! All your men are down, and you won't even show your face!

  Shining Knight : [stepping out of the settling dust]  He cannot hear even your bellowing, monster. As we speak, Superman rescues an entire star system a universe away. Do your worst. I'll not let you harm another.

  General Wade Eiling : I do what I do in service to my country.

  Shining Knight : Once at the word of my lord, King Arthur, I was ordered to lay waste to an entire village. I knew my king's heart could not be so unjust. So I spared them all.

  General Wade Eiling : Then you're a lousy soldier.

  [the General punches Shining Knight] 

  Shining Knight : There it is, the creeping moral decay of the past thousand years.

  [Shining Knight swings at the General and misses] 

  Shining Knight : Arthur thanked me, oaf. Had I been wrong, I would have handed over my sword and left the court in shame.

  [Shining Knight rushes the General, the General throws him down] 

  General Wade Eiling : Save yourself a hospital stay and stand down. That magic armor won't help you.

  Shining Knight : Have at thee!

  [Shining Knight rushes the General, who smashes him into the ground] 

  General Wade Eiling : You're a relic. In this world, power is the only thing that matters. You and those other no-name heroes, you're just people, in the great scheme of things, nothing you do has the least bit of significance.

  [General punches Shining Knight across the street] 

  General Wade Eiling : I'll waste you and billion like you before I let any power rival America's. It's my duty.

  Shining Knight : You don't know what the word means.

  General Wade Eiling : You can't win.

  Shining Knight : I'll die as befits a knight. Defending the weak.

  [Shining Knight tries to stand up but can't] 

  General Wade Eiling : Why don't you give up?

  Shining Knight : Why don't you?

• [Green Arrow and Speedy are pelting Eiling with arrows, which are having no effect] 

  General Wade Eiling : You spoiled, rich little twerp!

  Green Arrow : I think he means me.

  Speedy : Oh. For a second, I was all mad.

• General Wade Eiling : [picking up a car to smash Shining Knight]  Superman and your Justice League are a threat to a safe and stable world.

  Elderly Woman : [Standing inbetween Shinning Knight and Eiling]  Drop the act. You think killing Superman would make the world safe? Or killing this boy? Or us? Tell me, how many of us do you have to kill to keep us safe?

  General Wade Eiling : They're the ones I'm after, not you. I'm not the menace, Metahumans are! Superpowered beings.

  Johnny : You're the only one around here with super powers!

  [Eiling stops, dropping the car] 

  General Wade Eiling : ...All right, I've become what I hate, I'll give you that. But in the long run, you'll see I was right. You'll see you need the likes of me to protect you from them.

• General Wade Eiling : I mean it! Get Superman and tell him General Wade Eiling wants a word with him.

  Green Arrow : Eiling? From Cadmus?

  S.T.R.I.P.E. : What happened? That beat-down he handed you last year leave you with Superman issues?

  General Wade Eiling : He's your poster-boy. I'm gonna show the Justice League that you're not the only superpower on the block. That there's someone who can stop you. I'm here to protect them

  [motions to the crowd] 

  General Wade Eiling : from you.

• Amanda Waller : You look well. General. Past few months have been good to you.

  General Wade Eiling : Mrs. Waller, all due respect, this reassignment is a joke. Never thought I'd become a desk drone.

  Amanda Waller : I can't help you there. Langley all but scrapped Project Cadmus and insisted on your transfer. We're lucky we're not all in jail.

  General Wade Eiling : Look, the only mistake we made was trusting Luthor.

  Amanda Waller : Wade. You know better than to dwell on the past.

  General Wade Eiling : I'm talking about right now. The Justice League is still the single greatest threat to global security.

  Amanda Waller : I used to believe that too. But remember: we used to say the same about the Soviets. Our enemies are never as evil as we imagine... and maybe we're never quite as good.

  General Wade Eiling : Nuts. Don't tell me the bleeding hearts in Congress got to you.

  Amanda Waller : I'd eat them alive.

  General Wade Eiling : You would too. You've got some onions, Amanda.

  Amanda Waller : Then listen to me. I'm not the League's greatest fan, but their intentions are good. I can work with them.

  General Wade Eiling : What if you're wrong, though? Turns out the metahumans aren't on the side of the angels? We won't have any way to defend ourselves. Look what happened last year: Superman walked into Cadmus and tossed our best men like a salad.

  Amanda Waller : Oh, for heaven's sake.

  General Wade Eiling : What's to stop him from doing it again? They're all orbiting us with a space weapon, supposedly decommissioned. That's a much bigger threat than the Russians ever were. If we'd rolled over like this with the Soviet Union, given up our nukes...

  Amanda Waller : We'd all be living under a red flag?

  General Wade Eiling : Yes, ma'am, you'd better believe it. After all our work, what did Cadmus accomplish? You get a reprimand, I'm pushing pencils, and the League gets another base here on Earth, that Metro Tower. When one side loses ground and the other side gains, that isn't a truce - it's a surrender!

  Amanda Waller : It's a different world, General. Learn to live in it.

• General Wade Eiling : Where's Superman?

  Green Arrow : Busy. Can I help you?

  General Wade Eiling : Yeah, hold this for me!

  [Eiling throws a giant piece of debris at the League members]